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Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:46 am
by Sky
IceT-Bag wrote:What is CMOS? ...you fecking kiddin right?

Tell you what, put your computer back in the box it arrived it, and then take it back to PC World and tell them youre too retarded to own a computer :p

Assuming your mobo isnt fubar'd, it should beep to indicate a problem when attempting to boot. The number of beeps determines the cause of the problem....usually something is not seated properly in the mobo slots (ie: ram, cpu or graphics).

To test, take out your RAM and graphics card, then try booting up - you should get some beeps, then stick your graphics card in and boot again - again you should get beeps, then put your RAM in and boot again
You're assuming it has a speaker connected :p

Let's find out what he's got first before trying to diagnose it. He is welsh afterall, how do you expect to understand terms like "bios", "cmos" and "motherboard" :D

Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:52 am
by Hervig
Sky wrote:You're assuming it has a speaker connected :p
Nope... the beeps come from some secret, inbuilt noisemaker... :wink:

Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:59 am
by elpopo
You should try to take off the battery, wait some minutes then put it back on ur mb.

battery looks like that :

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Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:02 am
by umbongo(uk)
place steak and kidney pie inside ,turn on computer wait half an hour , remove pie

lol better still see the white tab/jumper in poopo,s pic next to battery thts the cmos reset switch.
switch off comp unplug it from mains, decharge any residual power ie press start button
either pop the battery out or place tab/jumper on pin 1/2 to reset then replace on pins 2/3.
turn system back on press f1 at boot usualy
next up will be if its a system with no floppy drive, why do,s the floppy error come up each time i switch on , or my cpu is incorrectly reported

all youve done hopfully is the bios has kept your old cas settings and adding the new ram confused it
when adding anything to a system always take the old out reset bios then put new in and boot there by eliminating conflict somtimes in ram timings saved to bios

all this info is in the manual you should have got with the computer , if you dont have it #
go to the respective site and download the pdf file
of just type in google "how to reset bios"

Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:16 am
by mrBunny
capris! capris makes excellent flavour as well... or is it capers? never got that one right...

Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:03 pm
by DrZux
mrBunny wrote:capris! capris makes excellent flavour as well... or is it capers? never got that one right...
Ah mrBunny an often made mistake maybe this will help you remember.

1st CAPRI

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2nd CAPERS

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Hope this helps

Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:32 pm
by GrumpyOG
Don't forget ..........The Capri tastes a lot better and the caper is more reliable :p


Welshie it would really help if we had you mother board make and number

Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:25 pm
by BowzeR
IceT-Bag wrote:What is CMOS? ...you fecking kiddin right?

Tell you what, put your computer back in the box it arrived it, and then take it back to PC World and tell them youre too retarded to own a computer :p

Assuming your mobo isnt fubar'd, it should beep to indicate a problem when attempting to boot. The number of beeps determines the cause of the problem....usually something is not seated properly in the mobo slots (ie: ram, cpu or graphics).

To test, take out your RAM and graphics card, then try booting up - you should get some beeps, then stick your graphics card in and boot again - again you should get beeps, then put your RAM in and boot again
i didnt buy my pc from pc world where can i send it?! rofl!

Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:44 pm
by Welsh
fu all.

where do i find out motherboard model?

im a noob!! No beeps, powering up..can hear it working but it just never loads up...cant get into bios or owt cos its not starting up!!!

gonna try battery when i figure out how to get it out!!!

Re: Big Problem....

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:55 pm
by BowzeR
man..... just flick it out... lol